Tiger announced ADL as second Hub

Tiger Airways has received initial indications that it will get approval to operate routes into New Zealand as the carrier prepares to announce its second Australia hub. Speaking to

Travel Today at the Australian Pacific Aviation Outlook Summit, Tiger group chief executive Tony Davis said that while the carrier did not currently have approval to operate trans-Tasman routes, he was “confident” of being able to secure rights. “There is a lot of interest among the New Zealand tourist community and the airports. I am confident of being able to convince the governments of the need for more capacity,” he said. Tiger has lobbied the Australian government for rights to fly international routes from Australia, but Davis said themain priority is the opening up of near Asian neighbours such as Indonesia and Malaysia rather than New Zealand, which could be approved bilaterally. Shelley Roberts, managing director of Tiger’s Australianoperations would not be drawn on thelocation of the low cost carrier’s second Australian base, but said an announcement was due imminently. Davis, meanwhile said it was “clearly not Sydney, or else we would have made it here today”. Davis is expected to be at the announcement, which could even be made this week.
-TravelToday

Where would they fly to Malaysia from Oz in an A320, Cairns???
Finally! any day now we will know the new base seeing Mr Davis is around for now....Any guesses BNE? OOL? CNS? ADL?

[Mal M]

OOL will more than likely be the 2nd base. I doubt they will come to brisbane

[Steve Jones]

I would say OOL no.1 in the running, with ADL 2nd. ADL odds probably shortened now Jetstar has closed their base there??

Time will tell - TT keep their cards closer to their chest than anyone (for good reason!), so I suspect no-one knows yet, not even the successful airport.

Is it possible at OOL for 2 A320's based there, and with the Melbourne Ops, possibly even 3 at one time around at Tiger's Little terminal?. From personal experience it would only seem 1 or mabye a Second A320 could actually fit. Does Adelaide also have enough spare gates also?

[Marty H]

Originally Posted by Lukas M

Is it possible at OOL for 2 A320's based there, and with the Melbourne Ops, possibly even 3 at one time around at Tiger's Little terminal?. From personal experience it would only seem 1 or mabye a Second A320 could actually fit. Does Adelaide also have enough spare gates also?

All four have been on the ground at once in Melbourne they park them top to tail.

Originally Posted by Marty H

All four have been on the ground at once in Melbourne they park them top to tail.

Sorry, Meant Gold Coast, not MEL. As in say they had 2 A320's based at OOL, and combined with the 3 daily MEL-OOL service, there could potentially be 3 A320's parked at OOL. Of course with Mineralogy and so on, there isn't much space left there

[Marty H]

Originally Posted by Lukas M

Sorry, Meant Gold Coast, not MEL. As in say they had 2 A320's based at OOL, and combined with the 3 daily MEL-OOL service, there could potentially be 3 A320's parked at OOL. Of course with Mineralogy and so on, there isn't much space left there

Not really because if they used OOL as a hub then they would have early morning departures.

[Grant G]

Hey guys,

Last time I went past the Tiger Terminal at OOL, there was no Mineralogy aircraft there, unless is has since returned.

There is plenty of room at the Tiger Terminal, this was originally where Virgin started flights and they had no problems getting 4 aircraft in.

My vote is OOL to be the next hub, with possible OOL- DRW flights, OOL - CNS flights.

NO flights operate North from OOL, No-one has ever had domestic flights Between OOL - DRW and OOL - CNS, except when Australian operated OOL - CNS - JAPAN.

[Steve Jones]

Add to that OOL-ADL, OOL-CBR, maybe an overnight OOL-PER (dropped by Virgin some time ago) and also OOL-HBA. Quite a few new opportunities.

Then again, from ADL you could offer PER, DRW, CBR, OOL, MCY, HBA, LST, ASP... At least a few times a week. Even more opportunities than OOL I would think?

[Steve Jones]

Tiger have also just announced that all DRW flying will cease end October (DRW-MEL and DRW-SIN). JQ seems to have won that round...